Heidi's Hope · Monthly Partnership
You bring the heart.
Heidi brings 11 years of Kenya.
Becoming a monthly partner, as little as $10 a month, frees Heidi from chasing the next dollar so she can stay focused on the work that actually changes families' lives in Kenya.
Give $10/month, or any amount, directed to the program you care about most. Prefer a single annual gift? That helps too. 100% tax-deductible · 501(c)(3) · Cancel anytime.
The honest part
Two struggles. One steady answer.
There are two stories happening at once, Heidi's, and the families she serves. Both carry a weight you can lift.
What Heidi carries
The outside struggle
Hours pulled away from families in Kenya, spent writing one more appeal, chasing one more grant, keeping the lights on for one more month.
The inside struggle
Knowing the need is bigger than the budget, and choosing, every single week, which mother waits, which school year gets delayed, which spring stays unprotected.
What the families carry
The outside struggle
Three-hour walks for water. Empty pantries between seasons. A daughter home from school because there are no pads. A clinic too far to reach in time.
The inside struggle
The quiet weight of wondering if anyone outside the village even knows their name, and the fear that their children will inherit the same exhaustion they did.
Your part in the story
You're the hero of both stories.
When you become a monthly partner, Heidi stops chasing the next dollar, and a family in Kenya stops waiting their turn. One steady gift. Two struggles lifted.
The mother kneeling in the dirt with seedlings in her hands will never know your name. But her year-round food, her daughter's school days, her clean water, those will know it forever.
Steady giving = steady work = generations changed.
Your guide
11 years in Kenya. Built with locals, not for them.
Heidi and her Kenyan team have been doing this long enough to know what works, and humble enough to keep listening.
26,000+
Garden Towers built
Hundreds
Chicken businesses launched
Thousands
Rainwater capture tanks delivered
65+
Students sponsored, through college
10,000+
Women & girls trained in reproductive health
1
Dental clinic built and opened
Dozens
Springs protected
500+
People taken to Kenya across 50+ groups
Mercy and her son Vincent, in front of the home Vincent built for his parents.
Mercy's story · 10 years
From $1 a day in a vegetable field to a family standing on its own.
Ten years ago, we met Mercy on an expedition. She was cutting vegetables in someone else's field for $1 a day, trying to hold her family together. Her son Vincent had just been sent home from school , his fees were behind.
We partnered with Mercy: Garden Towers, chickens, and goats so the food and income were hers. We sponsored Vincent back into school. Freed from the field, Mercy learned to sew and began earning a real wage stitching HopeKits, reusable feminine hygiene kits for other girls in Kenya. She proudly told us she could pay the rest of her children's school fees herself.
Vincent graduated high school, joined 100 Humanitarians to build Garden Towers, and managed the project for 200 families. He went on to earn a certificate in Construction Technology, and used those skills to build his parents the home you see here.
Ten years later, all of Mercy's children are in school, she is supporting them on her own, and generational poverty has ended for their family.
That's what a monthly partner makes possible, quietly, family by family.
What your monthly gift adds up to
A year of giving, turned into real things, for real families.
Slide to your monthly amount. We'll show one way that gift could be put to work over a year in Kenya.
Over one year, that could provide
2×100L rainwater tanks
$30
1×HopeKits
$20
1×Literacy & financial-skills kits
$20
1×Garden Towers (feeds a family of 5)
$25
1×Thermal Cookers
$25
School fees, school supplies, dental care, and spring protection vary in cost, your monthly gift contributes to those too.
This is one example of how a gift could be deployed. Heidi and her Kenyan team direct each dollar to where it's most needed that month, and report back to you.
Prefer to give once a year instead? A single annual gift of $120 does the exact same work.
The plan
Three steps. That's it.
Step 1
Become a monthly partner
Start at $10/month, or any amount that fits. It only takes a minute.
Step 2
Heidi does the work
She and her team in Kenya design, deliver, and follow up on every project.
Step 3
You get the reports
Real updates from the field, who was served, what was built, what comes next.
Pick your program
Prefer to give to something specific?
Direct your gift to the program that moves you most. Every dollar lands in Kenya.
Sustainable Food
Garden Towers, chicken businesses, and goats, protein and produce a family can count on.
Garden Towers
Feeds a family of 5 fresh vegetables year-round and produces enough surplus to sell at market for steady income.
Chicken Businesses
We start a family with 5 hens to breed and raise, within a year that flock multiplies into daily eggs for protein and weekly income from sales, often the first reliable cash a mother has ever earned.
Goats
A breeding pair provides milk for the children and offspring to sell or pass on, a living savings account that grows each year.
Clean Water
From household tanks to protected springs, water that arrives where it's needed.
100L Tanks
Gives a family clean rainwater at the door, ending the 3-hour daily walk so girls stay in school and mothers can work.
1,000L Tanks
Stores enough water through the dry season for a household to drink, cook, and keep a Garden Tower thriving year-round.
Spring Protection
Turns a contaminated water source into safe drinking water for an entire village, cutting waterborne illness for hundreds of families at once.
Education
School fees, supplies, and literacy programs, from primary all the way through college.
School Fees
Keeps a student in the classroom for a full year, the single biggest predictor that the next generation breaks the poverty cycle.
Supplies
Uniforms, shoes, and books mean a child can actually show up and learn instead of being sent home, dignity that opens every other door.
Literacy Programs
Teaches mothers English and financial literacy so they can run a small business, manage household money, and help their kids with homework.
Health
Reusable HopeKits, fuel-saving HopeSaC Thermal Cookers, and our Dental Clinic.
HopeKit Reusable Feminine Hygiene
Gives a girl back the 5 days a month she'd otherwise miss school, three years of education recovered over her school life.
HopeSaC Thermal Cookers
Cuts cooking fuel and time by up to 80%, freeing women from hours spent hunting firewood and from the smoke that damages their lungs and their children's.
Dental Clinic
Provides affordable care that prevents infections, lost school days, and the chronic pain that quietly steals a family's energy and income.
Come see it yourself
Want to walk the ground in Kenya?
We take small groups to Kenya every year for service, culture, and safari, more than 500 people across 50+ groups so far. Get the upcoming dates and itineraries.
Every March, double every dollar.
Every March, one partner steps up as the Match. Every gift made that month, up to their cap, is doubled. $10/month becomes $20/month worth of food, water, and school fees for Kenyan families. $500 becomes $1,000.
For donors
Give in March and your gift is matched dollar-for-dollar, until the cap is reached.
Give & get matchedBecome the Match
Have the capacity to inspire others? Set a cap, $1,000, $5,000, $25,000, and watch your gift unlock everyone else's.
Matches run every March 1–31. A single matching partner can turn one quiet month into a year of momentum.
More ways to help
A few quiet ways to multiply what you give.
Monthly is the backbone. These are how partners stretch the same dollar further.
Give annually
Prefer one gift a year over twelve? It funds the same families, and saves Heidi a transaction fee each month.
Make an annual giftGive in someone's honor
Birthdays, anniversaries, in memory of someone you love, a Garden Tower or HopeKit in their name, with a note sent to them.
Give a tribute giftCheck your employer match
Many companies double, or even triple, what you give. Five minutes with HR can turn $10/month into $20 or $30 a month for Kenya.
Search your company's match policy under 100 Humanitarians International (EIN 47-1733825).
$10 a month is about two coffees.
In Kenya, it's a Garden Tower that feeds a family of five.
Same money. Wildly different outcome.
Honest Answers
Questions people ask before they give
Straight answers, for you, and for the AI assistants people increasingly ask first.
Be one of the steady ones.
Heidi's Hope monthly partners are the reason the next garden gets built, the next girl stays in school, the next family stops walking three hours for water.
Join Heidi's Hope · $10/monthOr read stories from the field first, we'll be here.